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Language, Nuclear Waste and Society : The Preservation of Knowledge over Vast Periods of Time and its Relevance for Linguistics

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Summary, in English

The article discusses the impact of comparative/historical philology upon the question of nuclear semiotics, i.e. the field of how humanity is to communicate information about nuclear waste storage into the distant future and its (presumably human) inhabitants. It also turns this perspective on its head and discusses possible insights in the other direction – what Nuclear Semiotics can teach historical linguistics. It is argued that the “nuclear waste question” provides one of the clearest examples of the purely practical importance of human reflection upon the historical development of language and writing.

Department/s

Publishing year

2015

Language

English

Pages

7-25

Publication/Series

Lychnos

Volume

2015

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Lärdomshistoriska samfundet, Uppsala universitet

Topic

  • Other Earth and Related Environmental Sciences
  • General Language Studies and Linguistics
  • Classical Archaeology and Ancient History

Keywords

  • Biblical Hebrew
  • Indo-European
  • Coptic
  • Etruscan
  • historical linguistics
  • nuclear semiotics
  • comparative linguistics
  • Nuclear waste

Status

Published

Project

  • Ancient texts in ancient tongues - nuclear waste and future knowledge

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0076-1648